Robert Cohen - Theatre, Brief Version-McGraw-Hill Education (2016)

Index I-19
themes
elements of tragedy, 27–28
gravity and pertinence of play’s, 70–71
theatre art, 12
Then She Fell, 286
Thenon, Luis, Los Conquistadores, 294
They’re Playing Our Song, 135
Thomas, Richard, Jerry Springer, The Opera,
252, 253
Thompson, David, The Scottsboro Boys, 64
Thompson, John Douglas, 53, 203
Thompson, Mark, 302
Thompson, Sophie, 296
Thornton, Aria, 177, 184
The Three Sisters (Chekhov), 28, 44, 62, 119,
155–157, 218–219, 218, 307
The Threepenny Opera (Brecht), 15, 241
The Thunder Theatre (Kansas), 262
Thurber, Lucy, The Hill Town Plays, 272–273
Tiffany, John, 154
Timar, Alain, 225
Time Stands Still (Margulies), 159
Times Square (New York), 287
Titus Andronicus (Shakespeare), 116
The Toilet (Baraka), 258
Tomlin, Lily, 281
Tompa, Gábor
high concept productions by, 157
Kaddish for an Unborn Child directed
by, 163
Leonce and Lena staging by, 144
Rhinoceros directed by, 156
special recognition of Romanian directors,
299, 300
Tompa Miklos Theatre (Romania), 229
Tony Awards, for sound design, 133
Topdog/Underdog (Parks), 82, 259
Torelli, Giacomo, 91
Torture Team (Sands), 273
Trafalgar Studios (London), 267
tragedy
antagonist (opposer of the action) in, 23
Aristotle on music as the fifth component
of, 240
Death of a Salesman (Miller), 23–24
description and characteristics of, 22–24
modern plays as, 23–24
protagonist (carrier of the action), 22–23
vertical axis of components of, 27–31
tragedy components (vertical axis)
characters, 27
conventions, 29–31
diction, 28
music, 28
plot, 27
spectacle, 28–29
theme, 27–28
tragicomedy genre, 25
The Train Driver (Fugard), 298
Trainor, Kevin, 267
Transformers (film), 269
Trask, Stephen, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, 45,
140, 252, 288
Tremblay, Michel, 296
Tribes (Raine), 267
trilogy (Greek theatre), 196
A Trip to Coontown (Cole), 242
Tristan & Yseult (Kneehigh Company (UK)
production), 315
The Trojan Women (Euripides), 27, 106
trompe l’oeil (eye-deceiving) scenery, 93
troupes, 8
Tru (Allen), 281
Tsikurishvili, Irina, 281
Tsikurishvili, Paata, 147, 280, 281
Tubes (Wink, Goldman, and Stanton), 280
Tveit, Aaron, 254
Twelfth Night (Shakespeare), 46, 269, 270
12 Angry Men (Rose), 168
Twilight: Los Angeles 1992 (Smith), 281
Ubu Roi (King Ubu) [Jarry], 221, 224–226, 225,
292, 306, 307
Uhry, Alfred, Driving Miss Daisy, 219
Umfrid, Thomas, 88
Uncle Vanya (Chekhov), 28, 218
United Farm Workers union, 260
University of California’s Waiting for Godot
production, 293
The Unnamable (Beckett), 233
Uribe, Christina, 13
Urinetown, 252
USA Today, 136
Utah Shakespeare Festival, 88, 120, 136, 175,
219, 291
The Vagabond King (Friml), 243
Valdez, Luis
El Teatro Campesino, 260, 276
Zoot Suit, 117, 260
The Valley of Astonishment (Brook and
Estienne), 305
Valley Song (Fugard), 298
van Hove, Ivo
Angels in America directed by, 157
A View From the Bridge directed by, 158
Vargo, Matthew J., 149, 150
Vassallo, Hannah, 315
Vassiliev, Anatoli, 306
vaudeville entertainments, 242
Venus in Fur (Ives), 38
Venus (Parks), 82
verbatim theatre, 271–272, 272, 274
Verfremdung (distancing), 233, 234
See also theatre of alienation
Verlaine, Paul, 221
The Versailles Rehearsal (Molière),
145, 314
Very Good Eddie (Kern), 243
Vesturport Theatre (Reykyavik), 89
Vidal, Gore, as gay playwright, 265
Vienna: Lusthaus (Clarke), 280–281
A View From the Bridge, 158
Villa, Christopher, 179
Village Voice, 289–290
Vineyard Theatre (New York), 153
Vogel, Paula, 83, 257
Baltimore Waltz, 71
voice of actor, 53
Volksbühne (Berlin), 95
Vuillermoz, Michel, 205
Wagner, Jane, Search for Signs of Intelligent Life
in the Universe, 281
Wagner, Robin, 14
Waiting for Godot (Beckett)
celebratory component in, 72
costuming in, 117
design process in, 88–89, 91, 96
drama components in, 27, 34, 35
and how it revolutionized theatre, 3, 316
musical works in, 241
Patrick Stewart’s roles in, 49, 51, 231, 288
theatre of the absurd work, 231, 232–233
University of California’s production of, 293
Waiting for Godot (prison production), 278
Waiting for Godot (Purcarete’s production), 91
Waiting for Lefty (Odets), 17, 276
Wake Up and Smell the Coffee (Bogosian), 281
Walken, Christopher, 105
Wallace, Naomi, 258
Waller, D. W., 146
“Walpurgisnacht” scene (Purcarete’s Faust
production), 303
Wanamaker, Sam, 9
War Horse, 133, 134, 136
War of the Roses (Jensen), 136
Warchus, Matthew, 302
Ward, Bill, 227
Ward, Douglas Turner, 258
wardrobe supervisors, 142
Washington, Denzel, 260, 269
Wasserstein, Wendy
The Heidi Chronicles, 129, 288
as Pulitzer Prize winner, 258
Watch Me Work (Parks), 77, 81
Water by the Spoonful (Hudes), 291
Waters, Les, 84
The Weavers (Hauptmann), 218
Webber, Andrew Lloyd
The Beautiful Game, 10, 252
Cats, 251
Evita, 251
Jesus Christ Superstar, 251, 299
Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat, 251
Phantom of the Opera, 29, 242, 250, 251
Starlight Express, 251
Sunset Boulevard, 251
Webster, John, 21, 202
wedding ceremony ritual, 189
Wedekind, Frank, Spring Awakening, 253
Weigel, Helene, 47
Weill, Kurt, 245
The Weir (McPherson), 288, 296
Weiss-Brandt, Angi, 181
Weiss, Jeff, ...And That’s How the Rent Gets Paid,
281
Weiss, Peter, Marat/Sade, 304
Weisz, Rachel, 47
Weller, Frederick, 68
Wendland, Mark, 98, 254
Wendt, George, 135
West Side Story (Bernstein and Sondheim),
245, 247
When We Dead Awaken (Ibsen), 221, 222
Whistling Psyche (Barry), 296
White, Christine, 182
Whitmore, James, 281
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Albee), 51
Wicked (Schwartz), 17, 242, 252
Widowers’ Houses (Shaw), 218
Wiener, David, Extraordinary Chambers, 273
Wiest, Dianne, 291
wigmakers, 142
Wikes, Jamie, 26
The Wild Duck (Ibsen), 32–33, 218
The Wild Party (Lachiusa and Wolfe),
252–253
Wilde, Oscar, 265, 296
Williams, Bert, Darktown Follies of 1914, 243
Williams, Finty, 236
Williams, Robin, 269
Williams, Saul, 250